With Lost Girl entering its fifth and final season, debuting Sunday, Dec. 7 on Showcase, I had a chat with Anna Silk about the past, present and future of her lead character Bo.

Q: So if Bo is searching for the second “hell shoe” as season five begins, shouldn’t something so powerful be a little more stylish? Those shoes look as if they were purchased at a crappy discount store, and not recently.

Anna Silk: “We actually made jokes about that. I think they were supposed to be kind of rustic, very plain. It was funny, because at the end of shooting, I got to chose and keep some of Bo’s wardrobe, and I’m really grateful. But people were joking and saying, ‘Don’t you want to take the hell shoes?’ And I was like, ‘Naw, I think I’m good.’ ”

Q: Does it seem as if Lost Girl just began yesterday?

Anna Silk: “I remember the last day of filming, I walked off set after saying all my goodbyes. My husband was there with me, and as we were driving home it felt like it had all just disappeared into smoke. It has been six years of my life, five seasons, and it has been so great, but now if feels as if it just went by so quickly. We really enjoyed every second of it, and grew with it, and lived it.”

Q: Lost Girl can get pretty complicated at times – for me, anyway. Be honest, do you always understand exactly what Bo is up to and what’s happening?

Anna Silk: “No, not always. But I would always check to make sure I knew before I would perform it. I feel like in season four we got very heavy mythology-based, and that’s a little bit more complicated in terms of telling that part of the story. But season five has so much drive, especially on Bo’s part. It’s one of my favourite seasons.”

Q: Obviously you know how Lost Girl ends. And it’s not as if fans of this show are the types to over-analyze (that was sarcasm, in case you missed it). So what can you say about how things wrap up?

Anna Silk: “The way we end, when I read the finale, I could not have been happier. It was so hard to read. But it was like finishing the greatest book I’ve ever read.

"We’re not telling Little House on the Prairie stories. There are big consequences in the Fae world. I want people to see those, and feel them, and have opinions about them. I want to see what people think of the end, because I loved it.”

Q: I imagine you’ll miss Bo?

Anna Silk: “I love Bo. I’d love to have Bo as my friend. I still have this very inflated sense that I can kick people’s asses. But she’s such a beautiful soul, and so loyal, and so devoted, and so protective.

“I think I had a different view of what being a (series) lead meant before I actually did it. I thought, ‘You have to be hard, you have to be pushy.’ But I wanted to make it more truthful to me. We had a happy set. I feel like it worked beautifully. But you’ll have to ask everyone else about that, I guess!”

Q: Does it feel strange to be done with the show from a personal perspective, but the audience is just embarking upon the final season now, rolling far into 2015?

Anna Silk: “We’re alive, we’re still very much alive! We knew we were ending for a while, so I got used to that. Now I just feel really satisfied.”

Q: So no regrets about not snagging the hell shoes?

Anna Silk: “Perhaps someone is still wearing them, you never know. Maybe they were someone’s style.”

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